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With this additional consideration about costs varying according to quantity, our model now looks like this:

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subject to

yij = (xij) for i = 0, ..., nbDemand-1 and j = 0, ..., nbSupply-1

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With this problem in mind, consider how to represent the data and model in Concert Technology.